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A. PERLIGH. LAMP FOR PRODUCING SPIRIT GAS INGANDESGENT GAS LIGHT. No. 570,049. Patented Oct. 27, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBIN PERLIOH, OF DRBSDEN-STRIESEN, GERMANY.

LAMP FOR PRODUCING SPIRIT-GAS INCANDESCENT GAS-LIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 570,049, dated October 27, 1896.

Application filed October 29,1895. Serial No- 567,326. (No model.) Patented in France August 28, 1895, No. 248,141,- in LuxemburgAugust 28,1895, No. 2,359 in Norway August 29, 1895, No. 4,550; in Italy August 29, 1895, XXX, 39,624, LXXVII, 420; in England August 30, 1895, No. 16,272 in Belgium August 30,1895,No. 117,205; in Hungary September 5, 1895,1I0.3,577; in Switzerland September 7,1895, No- 11,036 in Canada September 13, 1895, No. 50,741, and in Austria October 26,1895,N0.4=/4,061.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBIN PERLICH, a sub= ject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Dresden-Striesen, in. the Empire of Germany,

5 have invented a new and useful Lamp for the Production of Spirit-Gas Incandescent Light, with Lighting and Extinguishing Oontrivances, (for which I have obtained a patent in France, numbered 218,141 and dated August 28, 1895; in Luxemburg, numbered 2,359 and dated August 28, 1895; in Norway, numbered 1,550 and dated August 29, 1895; in Belgium, numbered 117,205 and dated August 30, 1895; in Hungary, numbered 3,577 and dated September 5, 1895; in Switzerland, numbered 11,036 and dated September 7, 1895; in Canada, numbered 50,741 and dated September 13, 1895; in Italy, numbered Reg. Gen, XXX, No. 39,624, Reg. At-t., Vol. LXXVILNo. 420,

and dated August 29, 1895; in Great Britain, numbered 16,272 and dated August 30, 1895; in Austria, numbered Reg. B., 45, Reg. S., 4,001, and dated October 26, 1895,) of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of this lamp is to produce gas from spirit, in order, by mixing the gas with air, to heat an incandescent body.

Figure 1 shows this spirit glow-lamp in vertical section, while Figs. 2 to 4 illustrate sin- 0 gle parts in View and in cross-section.

The lamp consists, as Fig. 1 shows, of three principal parts, the burner, and the lighting and extinguishing contrivances. The burner is formed of a double-walled hollowcylinder a, between the walls I) and c of which are a number of wicks d, which suck up the spirit contained in receptacle f. In the burnerhead g at the upper edge of the cylinder a the inner casing c has a conical widening h,

40 in which two or more tubes '5 are arranged which run into the hollow burner-disk 7c. The interior of the burner-disk k is provided with a vertical tube Z, having slits or openings m at its upper end. Beneath these openings is a plate 12. The lower end of the tube Z in the cylinder to has a distributing-chamber 0, which is provided with outlet-openingsp. In the cylinder at, at the height of this distributing-chamber, are two or more air-channels q.

Upon the hollow burner-disk 7,", (shown in Figs. 1 and 3) is fastened a ribbed body 1", which supports the incandescent mantle or other medium, and is also for the purpose of accumulating and distributing heat.

The lighting contrivance consists of a smaller spirit-receptacle s, on which a tube 15 is arranged, and has a small opening u at its free end and a wick in its other end, which is in the receptacle 3. Underneath this tube i there is a second tube o, the wick of which lies exposed at its open end for lighting. This lighting contrivance while in 1 use is held by tube 2 resting on feet t", which stand upon the-receptacle f, and by the tube t, which, with the catch 00 at its front end, is hooked into a channel q.

The extinguishing arrangement is formed by two channels y and 2', which are both in the short piece a, and to which channels tubes a and b are joined, tube 5 reaching into the receptacle f. The short piece 0 is provided on its outer end with a thread upon which a socket d can be moved backward and forward, and is closed by a non-conducting hand-plate f. per-plate g, made of cork or similar material, for the purpose of reducing the friction, and carried by a metal cone h.

If the lamp is to be lighted, the tube of the lighting contrivance is put into one of the channels q, so that the catch a hooks firmly to the inside of the cylinder a. Then the apparatus, with its feet 1', is placed upon the receptacle f and the wick protruding from the tube 12 is lighted. The flame thus produced turns the spirit sucked into the wick of the tube 25 into gas, and this escapes through the small opening'u into the interior of the cylinder a. Here, through the conical widening 7L circulating around the tubes 2', it 0 reaches through the perforated surface upon which it is lighted.

While nowthe lamp is burning, the upper part of the cylinder a is heated by the warmth radiating from the burner-disk k and the ribbed body 1', so that gasification of the spirit sucked into the wicks d takes place. The gas hereby developed now goes in the direc- In the socket d is a stop- 75 tion of the arrows through the tubes t' '6 into the hollow burner-disk 7s, encompassing the plate '11, and passes through the openings m into the tube 5. In this way the gas in the burner-disk is again heated by the flame on the perforated surface, and in this condition now arrives in the distributing-chamber 0, passes through the opening 19 into the interior of the cylinder a, goes from here into the conical widening 7L, circulates around the tubes 1', and reaches the flame through the perforated surface 7.:.

On coming out of the openings p the gas mixes with the air entering through the channels q. Vhen this gas reaches the burnerhead, a further spontaneous gasification takes place in the wicks (I, so that the lighting contrivance can be detached.

In order to regulate the gas streamingto the perforated surface, a plate Z is provided inside of the conical widening h, which plate can be raised or lowered by a thread arranged on the tube Z, whereby the intermediate space between the conical wall and the plate nis extended or diminished, resulting in a greater or less influx of gas.

If the lamp is to be extinguished, the extinguishing eontrivancc proy ided on the burner already described is used.

Vith the burning lamp the socket cl is so far screwed onto the short piece a that the channels 1 and z are closed by the stopperplate g. In this position the gas developed in the wicks (7, distributing itself on all sides By this diverting of the gas the flame on I the perforated surface is extinguished.

hat I claim is 1. In a spirit-gas incandescent lamp the combination of the burner disk 70 with a ribbed body r which holds the incandescent mantle as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In the warming device the combination of a special spiritreceptacle s, a tube t filled with a wick and provided with small opening it and catch .70, with burner-tube o beneath, by which the spirit in tube I' is gasified, as set forth.

3. In a spirit-gas incandescent lamp the combination of the tubes (1, and b with the air'tight spirit-receptacle f, the piece 0, the channels 1 2 of this piece 0, the socket cl and the con e-shaped stopper-plate h inside the socket (2, as and for the purpose specified.

ALBIN PERLICII.

\Vitnesses:

I'IERMANN .TURENZ, PAUL WEBER. 

